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(No Model.)

W. W. WINTON.

PEN.

Patented Nov. 12, 1889.

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v IVALTER IVINTHRDP \VINTON, OF SCRANT ON, PENNSYLVANIA.

PEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,744, dated November 12, 1889.

Application filed March 6, 1889.

To. aZZ whom; it may concern:

Be it known that I, WAL ER WINTHRoP \VINTON, of Scranton, Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new form of pen; and it consists in the arrangement of feeding bars or tubes supported against and on both sides of the pen; in means for simultaneously adjusting said bars longitudinally upon the pen; in a ring or bridge-piece encircling the pen at the nibs and movable thereon, so as to render the pen more or less elastic, or softer or harder, at will; in the combination of said ring'wit-h the feeding-bars and pen 7 aforesaid, and in the construction and arrangement of the parts, all as hereinafter more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my improved pen with the feed-bars removed, and showing the adjusting-pinion in transverse section. Fig 2 is a front view with the feed-bars in place. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line X X of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line Y Y, and Fig. 5 a like section on line Y Y of Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the body of the pen, the nibs of which are separated by a slit B in the usual way. At the inner end of the slit Bis an elongated slot 0, having its edges toothed or serrated to form racks, substantially as shown.

D and E are feeding-bars placed upon opposite sides of the pen-body and made tapering at their lower extremities, which terminate a little above the pen-point. The bars D and E are bent or curved longitudinally, so that each forms with the adjacent face of the pen with which it is in contact a tapering tube or channel extending from the heel nearly to the point of the pen.

F is a bridge-piece formed upon or secured to the front feed-bar D, extending around the pen-body, and having its extremities attached to the back feed-bar E. The two feed-bars D and E are thus bound together. Passing through an opening in the front feed-bar D, at about the middle point of intersection of Serial No. 302,201. (No model.)

said bar and the bridge-piece F, is a pinion G, which is journaled in said opening, and is provided with a nicked headlI for con ven ience in turning. Said pinion is also journaled in the opening in the back feed-bar E, and is shouldered on each side of said op'ening, so that it is thus retained in place, while free to rotate. The teeth upon the periphery of the pinion E engage with the corresponding teeth on the edges of the elongated slot 0, through which slot said pinion also passes.

The mode of operation of the pen. constructed as above set forth is as follows: If the pen is used in a fountain-holder, the ink will flow down both tubes D and E, and thus be supplied on both sides of the nibs. It will be observed that the feed-bars are supported on the pen and do not extend beyond the heel I thereof. They are not integrally portions of any holder. If the pen is not used with a fountain source of supply,it may be dipped in the ink in the ordinary way, when the ink will be drawn into the feed- 'tubes from below by capillary attraction.

When the pinion is turned, its teeth engage with the rack-teeth of the slot, and hence it travels thereon and moves with it the two feed-bars D and E simultaneously. In this way t'he-lower extremities of said bars are adjusted nearer to or farther from the penpoint. The bridge-piece F is at the same time caused to slide along the angular sides of the pen, and as it moves upward compresses the nibs of the pen together, thus closing the slit and rendering the pen harder. The bridge-piece which encircles the pen thus serves the double function of connecting the feed-bars, so as to render them simultaneously adjustable upon the pen-body, and also of varying the character of the pen itself, causing it to be harder or softer, or more or less elastic, in accordance with the position of said bridge-piece and the extent of its compressing action upon the nibs.

I claim 1. The combination of a pen and two iongitudinally-channeled feed-bars secured one to each side of said pen and extending nearly to the point thereof, each of said bars forming with the adjacent face of the pen a tubu- 2. The combination of a pen and a longitudinally-channeled pointed feed-bar secured to one side of said pen and extending nearly to the point thereof, the said bar and adjacent face of the pen forming a tubular conduit tapering to the point, substantially as described.

The combination of a pen and two feedbars disposed one on each side of said pen and extending nearly to the point thereof, and a bridge-piece connecting said bars to one another and extending around the angular outer edges of the nibs, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a pen and two feedbars disposed one on each side of and supported against said pen and extendingnearly to the point thereof, and means for adjusting the lower extremities of said feed-bars nearer to or farther from said point, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a pen and two loose feed-bars disposed one on each side of and supported against said pen and extending nearly to thepoint thereof, the said feed-bars being movable upon said pen in a longitudinal direction, substantially as described.

(5. The combination of a pen and a ring extending around the outer angular edges of the nibs, the said ring being movable upon said angular portion to force the adjacent edges of the slit in the pen into closer contact, substantially as described.

7. The combination of a pen, a ring extending around the outer angular edges of the nibs, a serrated longitudinal slot in said pen, and a pinion journaled in said ring and entering and engaging with the serrations in said slot, the said pinion when, rotated moving in said slot and causing the ring to travel upon said angular edges, substantially as described.

8. The combination of a pen, a feed-bar upon one side of said pen and extending nearly to the point thereof, a serrated longitudinal slot in said pen, and a pinion journaled in said feed-bar and entering and engaging with the serrations in said slot, the said pinion, when rotated, traversing said slot, and so longitudinally moving said bar upon said pen, substantially as described.

9. The combination of a pen and two feedbars, one on each side of and against said pen and extending nearly to the point there of, aserrated longitudinal slot in said pen, and a pinion journaled in said feed-bars at its extremities and passing through and engaging with the serrations in said slot, the said pinion, when rotated, traversing said slot, and'so longitudinally moving said bars upon said pen, substantially as described.

10. The combination of a pen and two feedbars, one on each side of and against said pen and extending nearly to the point thereof, a connecting piece or bridge extending between said feed-bars and around the angular edges of the nibs, a serrated longitudinal slot in said pen, and a pinion journaled in said feed bars at its extremities and passing through and engaging with the serrations in said slot, the said pinion, when rotated, traversing said slot, and so simultaneously moving said bars and connecting-piece upon said pen, substantially as described.

11. The combination of a pen, two feedbars disposed one on each side of said pen and extending nearly to the point thereof, a ring encircling the angular edges of the nibs of said pen, and means for moving said bars and ring simultaneously upon said bars, substantially as described.

12. The combination of the pen A, having the serrated slot C, the channeled bars 1) E, pinion G, journaled at its extremities in said bars and engaging in said slot, and connect in g bridge-piece F, substantially as described.

WALTER WINIIIROP WIN'JON.

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A. M. WINToN, G. W. MILLER. 

